I don’t always write sappy, heartfelt posts on the internet, but this weekend I did, yesterday, after the closing of Same Time Next Year, which went, I mean, that experience was really good, which was what the posts were about. You’re Daily Lex Yeah, we did a variety of sold-out shows, even the shows that I thought were undersold kept getting sold out by the end, which was awesome.

It’s just much more fun to do a show for a sold-out audience.

When I do comedy sports, the theater that we do comedy sports can hold 45, maybe 50 people, and we often play to audiences of 25 people.

It’s fun to get people to laugh, but it’s more fun to play to a big audience.

The difference between playing to 400 people in a 500-seat theater and 500 people in a 500-seat theater is material.

But luckily, we kept selling out these shows.

It’s actually like 520 people, whatever.

But the shows went great.

What mistakes there were in the theater were very minor, and nobody would ever know.

But they were really good and really fun.

So we knew we had this massive snowstorm forecasted, and Saturday, the theater continued to say, the show was on for Sunday, we are not canceling the show.

Or at least we’re not canceling the show yet, which meant we went into our Saturday night show not knowing if it was our closing show or not.

We did eventually decide, let’s assume it’s our closing show, because it really seems like we’re hard-pressed to be able to do the show tomorrow.

But the theater was also pretty adamant, like, hey, this is not canceled, so don’t take everything home.

Like, I mean, the stuff that’s ours, we could take home if we wanted to, but their point was don’t, because we’re going to aim to do the show tomorrow.

And it was around 11 o’clock the next morning they canceled the show.

But it was great.

And I received so many nice comments from friends who went, and my point here is not to talk about how great I am, although, let’s be clear, many people, strangers and friends, were like, oh, you made me laugh, but you also made me cry.

Like, so many people wanted to let me know that I made them cry, that my son had been killed.

And it’s shocking.

That moment in the show was shocking, I should say, not the fact that I can act.

Maybe that’s shocking.

But the best compliment I got I think I received today from a friend who had played the sheriff when I did Misery.

You know, Misery is a three-person show where there’s the author, Wilkes, and then the sheriff, who has just a couple short scenes, but, you know, it’s a key part.

And that guy, I love the story of, he got that role in large part because he went into audition and said, I’d like to be the sheriff.

And the director said, you have the part, because nobody else was coming out to audition for the sheriff.

They were coming out to audition for Paul Sheldon, the author, who gets tortured by Annie Wilkes in Misery.

But so, my sheriff, that was his first and thus far only role on stage.

He said to me via text message today that he enjoyed the show so much and enjoyed my performance so much that he’s thinking that he wants to try more acting, because he just really thought it looked fun.

But boy, I’m going to miss this show.

It was really fun doing this show.

You get to, like, shift emotions.

It’s a reasonably happy ending.

Audiences really respond to it.

God, these audiences were really talking back to us and really engaged.

They really came along for the ride.

You know you’re going to get them to laugh.

You know you’re going to shock them.

You know you’re going to make them really sad for a couple minutes.

It was a fun journey.

And whatever show I do next, because this was awesome.

Man, I love a two-person show or a tiny cast show, because you’re never wasting time rehearsals.

And, I mean, it’s a lot of work.

That was the thing that was really, not surprising to me, but really overwhelming.

As you know from listening to this podcast, it was a lot of work to memorize all the things and then to not have to worry about the memorizing and just be good at doing the show.

It was hard to stay on stage the entire show.

But I loved it.

It’s like, that’s what I want to do when I do a show.

I want it to be hard work where I do the work and my results are what shows.

In a big cast, you know, you are inevitably, even if you’re the biggest lead in the show, if it’s a big cast, you still have some downtime.

And I hate, I just hate feeling like I’m wasting my time.

There’s a lot more personalities.

So there’s a greater chance of somebody annoying being in the show.

Or more than one annoying person.

Now, I’ve had people point out, well, if you’re in a two-person show and you don’t like the other person, that’s a problem.

I guess that’s true.

But I also try to trust the director.

If they’re casting a tiny show, they’re working really hard.

Oh, you know, monsters.

And they weren’t.

So this was great.

I miss it.

I’m sad.

Sometimes I’m amused when people tell me they have the post-show blues.

But boy, I have the post-show blues.

I can’t believe I’m not going to do that show anymore.

It was great.

I will not miss the mustache, though.

Anyway, I hope you…

Oh, and then of course there was a ton of snow.

I’ll give you a quick…

Why not?

We’re 4 minutes and 47 seconds in.

We’ll give you a second story.

Tons of snow.

I had ahead of time booked with a company to handle the plowing.

They came in salted before the storm started.

I had picked my time.

They were going to come between like 3 and 8 in the morning today.

And they hadn’t come.

But I woke up to text from them saying that a truck…

One of their trucks had broken down.

And then one of the operators had broken his finger.

And then they just kept having more problems.

And eventually they sent this massive text to this list of people who are in my zone.

And they’re like, we’re just two 18-year-old kids who graduated from high school last year.

And we don’t know what we’re doing.

And we’re trying.

We’re trying to get some other snow clearing.

And it’s like, what are you even talking about?

And people honest, but I really felt like an emperor has no clothes situation.

Because they hadn’t been honest.

Their stuff had been broken for 12 hours by the time they finally sent an update.

So I reached out to another person.

And they said, yeah, I can be there within the next hour, hour and a half.

And so at the two hour mark, I checked in.

And they said, I’ll be there very soon.

And then at the three hour mark, I checked in.

And they said, on my way.

And then at the four hour mark, I checked in.

And he’s like, yeah, my snow blower is not working, so I’m not coming.

Now, could I have shoveled this myself?

Yes.

But at this point, I had committed to not doing it.

In part, I want my driveway cleared so I can go to the gym, which is a little bit funny.

I get it, but it’s fine.

So I reached out to another person.

And they were like, hey, it’s cheaper than the other people quoted you.

And I was already not paying that much for, you know, no.

And I was like, wow, how soon can you be there?

And they said, five minutes.

We’re literally right around the corner.

And then five minutes later, there they were plowing my driveway.

So hooray.

I have one more work call today.

And then I’m going to the gym with Sierra, who is a good workout buddy.

In large part, because she’s like, wow, your muscles look insane when you do that.

And that’s a great thing to have your workout buddy tell you.

Lex.